Inside Market Data/News
Vendors Win B-Pipe Status; B-POD Still Under Wraps
Wombat Financial Software will this week announce that its feed handler to support Bloomberg's B-Pipe broadcast datafeed has been awarded platinum status by the vendor, making it the third software provider in six days to achieve the certification.
PIA Launches Independent Research Service
A team of three former Dresdner Kleinwort bankers last week launched Price Information Advantage, an independent provider of technical research covering 15 spot foreign exchange currency pairs, seven interest-rate cash and futures products and six equity…
Data Volumes Prompt SFTI Upgrade
NYSE Euronext is putting the finishing touches to a major upgrade to SFTI (the Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure), its industry-mandated network for market data distribution and order routing, to cope with increased data traffic and…
Ref. Data Glitch Halts Euronext.liffe
Trading and market data distribution on Euronext's derivatives markets ground to a halt early last Monday, June 4, because of a technical issue with its market surveillance system, forcing the exchange operator to shut down the Euronext.liffe markets for…
Penny-Options Strategies Slow Growth
Following the success of quote mitigation strategies by US options exchanges to manage the anticipated growth in market data from the Securities and Exchange Commission's pilot phase of quoting options in penny increments, exchanges and observers are now…
Pivot Preps Integrated "360 Workspace"
Pivot Solutions, developer of the IMTrader FIX-enabled trader messaging system, will unveil a new strategy to reposition itself as an "institutional-strength collaboration vehicle" at the upcoming SIFMA Technology Management conference, according to…
DME to Distribute Data via Nymex Network
The Dubai Mercantile Exchange, which began trading Friday, June 1, is using a network operated by the New York Mercantile Exchange to distribute market data to Nymex members, officials say.
Chi-X Targets FAST Feed by Year-End
Chi-X, the MiFID-inspired alternative trading system set up by broker Instinet, plans to introduce a new datafeed based on FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming data) compression algorithms by the end of this year, officials say.
Detica Signs Kx to Support FSA's Sabre II
UK-based technology consultancy Detica is using Kx Systems' kdb+ database to store and query multiple terabytes of real-time and historic data as the basis of the Sabre II market monitoring system that Detica is building for UK regulator the Financial…
West Highland, CJC Join Forces for Global Support Services
West Highland Support Services, a New York-based provider of market data support and remote system management services, is preparing to unveil an agreement with CJC, a London-based consultancy providing market data consulting, administration and…
eSpeed-BGC Deal Drives New Data
The pending buyout of Cantor Fitzgerald's voice-broking spin-off BGC Partners by Cantor's electronic trading subsidiary eSpeed is expected to generate a wealth of new market data products as a result of combining the two businesses.
West Highland, CJC Join Forces for Global Support Services
West Highland Support Services, a New York-based provider of market data support and remote system management services, is preparing to unveil an agreement with CJC, a London-based consultancy providing market data consulting, administration and…
WestLB Aims DART at Data Spend
German bank WestLB has rolled out the Data Access and Reporting Tool (DART) from Wombat Financial Software subsidiary Harco Technology in a bid to reduce its market data costs by eliminating duplication of services, bank officials tell Inside Market Data…
Deutsche Börse Expands Data Connectivity with Dark Fiber
Deutsche Börse Systems has partnered with European network provider euNetworks to offer increased bandwidth connectivity to consumers of the exchange's data, to help them deal with bandwidth issues arising from rising market data volumes and algorithmic…
NYSE Euronext Advances Data Integration
As part of its plans to establish a single data distribution infrastructure for the merged NYSE Euronext, the New York Stock Exchange is working to establish connectivity between Euronext and the SFTI (Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure) network…
Exegy Integrates DRC Processor Module
St. Louis-based technology provider Exegy will integrate DRC Computer Corp.'s Reconfigurable Processor Unit (RPU) into its hardware-accelerated ticker plant, enabling Exegy to add complex event processing and algorithmic functions to the ticker plant in…
Thomson Buys Xinhua News; DJ in Play
Newswire consolidation continued last week with news during early Asia trading on Friday that Thomson Financial had acquired the news assets of Xinhua Finance News outside of China, and that Dow Jones' controlling Bancroft family is now considering a…
Asia Demand Spurs New Indexes
Demand for investable emerging market indexes and index data on Asian markets is booming, according to index provider FTSE, which has launched three new indexes in the region in recent weeks.
New LIM Releases Simplify Queries, Fix Java Bug
Logical Information Machines, a Chicago-based provider of financial, energy and commodities data, last week released the latest version of its XMIM analytical software that simplifies the way that users construct queries to run on market data.